Out of the blue, I received a telephone call from Matthew explaining that he and his wife Rachel were visiting the Lake District the following week, and that they were expecting their first child, and would like some photos taken to record the event.
Over the following couple of days, a time and date were arranged and that I would collect them from Keswick as they didn’t drive.
Matthew and Rachel were comfortable for me to select a location, I wanted to visit at least two different locations to provide variation, but did not want to be driving for 20/30 minutes between locations, after all Matthew and Rachel wanted the best use of the time we had booked, so in the mean time, I sat down and selected several nearby locations which would provide variety and interest.
On the day of the shoot, the weather gods were being a little indecisive, overcast sky’s, but it was warm, I had asked Matthew and Rachel to bring some wet weather clothing just in case, but upon arrival at Keswick it was a warm dry summers afternoon, with some cloud cover, but not the rainy ones 😁
I met Matthew and Rachel at the agreed meeting place, made our introductions, and off we set to the first location.
When we arrived, there were still people roaming around and taking photographs for themselves, so while we were waiting I explained where I wanted to visit and what type of images I hoped to get from each location.
I set about taking images of Matthew and Rachel with them being placed on the edge of the viewpoint, then moved to take some more intimate shots using the wooded area that surrounded us.
From the fist location, we moved to the nearby second one, a very famous bridge! here I placed the couple smaller in the frame and captured to wider vista around them.
Once we finished here, it was off to location number 3, again a well know local setting on the edge of a lake, when we arrived people were swimming in the lake, and paddle boarding along the lakes, but they were very accommodating and kept out of shot while we were their. I placed Matthew and Rachel on the jetty, and captured close-in, and wider vista images of them.
The session was planned to last for 1 hour, but I never get fixated with this, I would rather the couple have an enjoyable and relaxed time when photographing them todays session was nearing 2 hours.
I returned Matthew and Rachel to Keswick, where they headed for a well deserved meal. I returned home, where I began editing the photographs which would be delivered to Matthew and Rachel.
The package included one print, which Matthew and Rachel would select, and all the edited photos would be sent to them as hi-resolution images on a memory device.
I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of photographing Matthew and Rachels Maternity shoot, to which they contributed immensely, they were easy to get on with, were open to suggestions on compositions, and all-in-all they were two very nice people.
They sent me a very nice review, for which I am very thankful.
